Technology Resource Center

Visioning:

Team Norm Possibilities:
Procedures
Stay on task
Teacher dialogue
How will we react to
Are different opinions valued
How do we encourage listening
Rules for decision making
Dealing with conflict
Expectations for participation
Fully present
Evaluation

Our Own Group Norms:
Be focused and stay on task
All decisions should be made through consensus
Respect and value all team members and ideas
Listen and be open minded
Meetings should start and end on time
Meetings should be organized and productive
Set goals and evaluate at the end of each session
Communicate via minutes with all TIS and encourage feedback via email
Have chocolate at each meeting

Mission:
To improve student achievement by providing a centralized technology-based collection of resources

Project Goals:
1. Identify, contact, and evaluate other resource sharing solutions
2. Determine best methods for us
Develop a plan for collecting & evaluating content
Develop an overview of the process
Develop rationale for implementing resource sharing product (selling it to the district)
Develop an implementation plan

Greenville County: A web site has been created for district teachers and one has to have a password to use the site. The site is "Curriculum Connection - by teachers for teachers". It contains standards, pacing guides, and some lesson plans for each content area.
Jeff McCoy

Questions to ask other sources:
How do you collect resources?
How do you promote it?
How do you evaluate resources?
How is the site maintained?
Is it password protected?
How is it managed?
How much man-power does it take?
How is it hosted?
How do you evaluate its use?
Is it user friendly?

Large questions:
Internet or Intranet?
Funding?
Server?
Will we also find a way to digitally display student work?
Can we embed a search of resources in something like Destiny?
Password protected?
Usable by students?

What features does it need to offer?
Searchable
Easily accessible
Organized by standards
User populated (anybody could add content)
Content rating system

What are different possibilities and how do they work with our preferred features?
Net-trekker
Web 2.0 applications:
blog
wiki
ning
moodle
P2P Network sharing???

Goals: November 15

What will we include in our resources?
What will the format be?
Share what we learned
List pros & cons of possible formats(peer-to-peer sharing network, web-based, user-groups, intranet district folder )

Discussion:

Rating system by users.What about junk that would get posted?
There will have to be a teacher training component.
What are the biggest concerns about this project?

It's just so large and like jello.

How can we break it up into manageable parts and still see the big picture?

Pros & Cons:

November 30

Meeting with Jeff
Sharepoint probably not likely anytime soon
FTP sites for groups (Eagles, guidance, fine arts)
Who will post content/manage? ideally, teacher run, user rating system
Needs to be searchable; capability is available
100 mg connection: can work with 1 server ($6500 monthly for 50 MB; $13,000 monthly for 100 MB bandwidth)
Central server, outside accessible through DMZ, password protected,
As a person posting content, don't want to go through deep directory but instead post by
Develop a Word Doc: structure of what it would look like
What fields are required?
Can use common ext. to pull out file type info.
What groups do you want to use? If not file specific, need dialog on front in...
What will it look like when you click Go? What do we want to see at each step?
How to Sort within All?
How to display them when we have hundreds? Show by most recent, most popular?

What do we want to see?
Input screen/ upload
Output screen: returned to user from search
Search screen
Log in screen: home web presence or go right to the log in screen?

Considerations:
Grouping of resources (type) - front end and back end
Make note about connections between fields on different screens (keywords)
Keywords: AP or Advanced Placement
Popup of summary for each activity before object opens?
Include 5 pieces of test content (different file types)
US videos should be linked out rather than saving hard copy
Desktop shortcut to US videos
Consider if attached files will be embedded; what if files are linked from G drive?
Populating with a generic account or through Novell authentication? Start with generic.
Will document come right up or will a web page of tags come up to enable editing tags (when or where to edit tags?)